Evanna Devine

 



Graduating with a First-Class Honours degree in Photography from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). Evanna Devine is an award-winning  photographer from Belfast. Her work is driven by a commitment to storytelling and community collaboration. Focusing on underrepresented voices, capturing narratives that engage with communities in meaningful and long-lasting ways.


At the heart of her practice is a passion for collaboration and a drive to tell important stories that often go unheard. Through photographic portraiture, she strives to capture the complexities of ideas of class, Irish heritage and identity in contemporary Ireland.

Exhibitions

2026 

  • Exploring Antrim and Newtownabbey — Solo Exhibition, Belfast Photo Festival
  • Still Looking — Group Exhibition, The International Centre for the Image
  • Taylor Wessing Photo Prize — Group Exhibition, Photo Museum Ireland

2025

  • The Library Project, Halftone Fair, Dublin.
  • Talents 25 — Group Exhibition, PhotoMuseum Ireland
  • Mason Hayes & Curran — Group Exhibition

2024

  • It is Different for Mothers — Solo Exhibition, Féile An Phobail
  • Between My Finger and My Thumb — Group Exhibition, IADT, Dún Laoghaire

2023

  • It is Different for Mothers — Solo Exhibition, Belfast Botanic Gardens
  • Presented with Relatives for Justice & Belfast Photo Festival
  • Roots — Group Exhibition, DIVA, Dún Laoghaire


Awards & Residencies

2026

  • AIB Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland — Shortlist
  • Women in Nature Artist Commission — Photo Museum and Ireland and Tóchar Wetlands.
  • Shortlisted Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize.
  • Nominated Leica Oskar Barnack Award.

2025.

  • International Centre of the Image — Studio Award
  • PhotoIreland × Mason Hayes & Curran — Photography Award
  • Short listed— Hendrik teNeues Award

2024

  • RADAR Artist Residency with PhotoIreland
  • Early Career Artist Award, PhotoMuseum Ireland
  • Canon— Student Development Programme
  • Long-listed — RDS Visual Arts Awards​​​​​​​


Teaching & lectures


2025- 2026

  • Dublin City University  - Present

Photography Lecturer / School of Communications

  • Guest Lecture, Institute of Art,Design and Technology
  • Guest Lecture, Griffith College, University of Austin Texas.
  • Island Photographers Talk.
  • Evanna Devine: Artist Talks, Belfast Photo Festival.
  • Panel : Irish Photo Network Symposium, Belfast Exposed, Belfast Photo Festival, Photo Museum Ireland and Source Magazine.



Publications


  • The Irish Times, cover shoot  —  June 2026
  • The Guardian, The Best of Belfast Photo Festival in Photos  — May 2026
  • Photo Museum, TALENTS Catalogue - Sep 2025
  • The Wall Street Journal — 2 Aug 2025 by Evanna Devine for WSJ
  • Irish Arts Review — Cecily Brennan feature, Photography by Evanna Devine, 2025
  • The Times — 23 Oct 2025 Ireland / World feature
  • TLP Editions —  Solo Book Publication, 2024
  • Source Magazine — Graduate Photography, 16 Aug 2024
  • Irish Arts Review — IADT Class of 2024 Feature, Photography by Evanna Devine
  • The VAN & miniVAN — “Column | Flock”

Dublin Art Book Fair 2024


  • The Irish Times — 17 May 2023

Social Affairs feature.

  • Irish Independent — 6 Apr 2023

Open-air photographic exhibition.

  • The Irish News — 2 Apr 2023

Feature on It Is Different for Mothers exhibition.


Collections


International Centre for the Image


Photo Museum Ireland


Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT)


TLP Editions, PhotoIreland

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